If one cares to go back a good few posts (and probably back into v.1 of this thread) you will see that, at the time, the code did not require sprinklers, and that the inspectors were very hands-off (if not invisible)..........

If one cares to go back a good few posts (and probably back into v.1 of this thread) you will see that, at the time, the code did not require sprinklers, and that the inspectors were very hands-off (if not invisible)..........

Precisely.

However, Arconic did not inform the body which issues product specification certificates in the UK.
The company says it was not responsible for designing cladding systems which used its product or for ensuring they met the requirements of the building regulations.

The extent of London’s cladding crisis has been laid bare by a report from the London Assembly, with both the Mayor of London and the Government urged to act.
More than three years on from the Grenfell Tower fire, around two thirds of private residential buildings in London identified as high-risk have still not had cladding removed.
...
The London Fire Brigade identified 590 high-risk buildings that require temporary measures until work is completed such as waking watches or common fire alarms, which the fire brigade must check on fortnightly.

The Government has been urged by the Housing, Communities and Local Government select committee to complete all remediation work nationally by the time of the fifth anniversary of the Grenfell Tower fire in June 2022.

Last year, the council signed off a £2m "extraordinary cost item" from its children's services budget to cover the potential fine and legal costs, according to the Local Democracy Reporting Service.

The UK's building safety crisis is escalating.
In the wake of the Grenfell Tower fire in 2017, safety inspections on high-rise buildings have exposed decades of regulatory failure.
It's not just that thousands of blocks are still wrapped in dangerous cladding, but many buildings have other serious problems: missing fire-breaks, defective insulation, flammable timber balconies.
Delays in fixing faults have seen costs for flat owners rocket - increased service charges and insurance costs as well as bills for fire alarms and round-the-clock fire wardens known as waking watch.

The party agues a new body is needed "after years of delays and ineffective measures" from the government.

Extra £3.5bn promised by government to remove unsafe cladding from high-rise buildings over 18 metres "at no cost to residents"

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Extra £3.5bn promised by government to remove unsafe cladding from high-rise buildings over 18 metres "at no cost to residents"

Extra £3.5bn promised by government to remove unsafe cladding from high-rise buildings over 18 metres "at no cost to residents"

Yep, just cost the taxpayers for their aesthetically pleasing & energy efficient bungling.

When asked by counsel to the inquiry, Richard Millett QC, Ms French said she had 'not heard' of the fatal fire.
She said: 'No I don’t recall. I've not heard of Lakanal house.' Asked if she was aware of it now, she said: 'No.'

A technical manager at the maker of the Grenfell Tower cladding told colleagues poor fire test results on the product needed to be kept "very confidential".

The request, in capital letters, was in an email sent in 2010...

... Giving evidence to the inquiry, Arconic's president in France, Claude Schmidt, admitted when pressed that the email suggested customers had been misled...

... The 2010 email was sent in response to discussions with a client in Spain, who had raised concerns about using the most flammable version of the cladding because Spain required a minimum class B.

Mr Schmidt told the inquiry earlier that lower fire safety restrictions in the UK encouraged sales of the most flammable version of the company's product, made from polyethylene, plastic, or PE as it was known in the industry.

He said other countries had gradually restricted sales of cladding made from polyethylene or PE, which burns easily. He believed Kazakhstan had banned it. Despite that, the UK remained a "PE market", he said...

No 6 - Arconic's UK sales manager, Deborah French, was asked at the inquiry: why not attach a health warning to the product?
"At the time," she said, the level of risk "wasn't so obvious".

No 8 - Questioned about it, Ms French claimed she had not been telling the truth when writing the email.

"For lower-rise buildings which have a lower risk, our generous capped finance scheme will ensure bills are a maximum of £50 per month."

He said: "I've been working with residents of this block for a long time to help them resolve fire safety issues. Their safety must come first."